I agreed with you on your point. 

However, we need the communities, government, and investors' support to allow entrepreneur to be extremely crazy about making a difference, see and think beyond the future, be truly innovative,... than just copy a money-making products from US, Japan, Korea, China, etc, such as another group-buying portal, online shop, taxi booking system, etc.

Malaysian need to be crazy enough to innovate.

Focus on creating value that will change the world, not how much money you can make for your investor.

i always believe this - Do good, have fun, and money will come, Richard Branson said this.

If you are referring to IT implementation for GLC or MNC, here's the mentality and possible roadblocks,

1. CTO, CIO want to be safe in their position in their company, thus they must ensure the system is implemented successfully, with good support. Budget is not an issue. In this case, they will go for solution with good track record and reliable support.

2. Tender bidding process - to ensure the procurement process is fair, the tendering process has become lengthy.

3. Foreign companies have a better after-implementation support, a dedicated team to handle customers' 1st and 2nd line support. For startup, the support team are probably the developers, which probably the founders as well.

4. We are selling ourselves too cheap.

I can be your technical mentor :)